Literary Quotes Trivia Questions
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Which writer, in his 1711 'Essay on Criticism', said, ''Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, but the joint force & full result of all'?
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alexander pope
What event did Carl Sandburg refer to in his quote, 'Sometime they'll give' one of these 'and nobody will come'?
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war
What word completes the line 'If I should meet thee after long years, how should I greet thee? -- with silence and' from the love poems category?
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tears
Who wrote the line about human speech, 'We long to make music that will melt the stars,' in 'Madame Bovary'?
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gustave flaubert
What did Longfellow call 'The Universal Language of Mankind'?
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music
Who is the author quoted in Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises' as saying, 'You are all a lost generation'?
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gertrude stein
Which author referred to 'The Loved One' as 'a little nightmare produced by the... high living of a brief visit to Hollywood'?
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evelyn waugh
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